How much clout does Missouri’s congressional delegation have?

Missouri’s congressional delegation ranks 30th in terms of its clout, according to an analysis by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

The paper used a formula to tally up each state’s “built-in sway in Congress” and made this nifty graphic of how each state stacks up. The factors included federal spending per capita in the state, delegation size, House and Senate seniority, membership in the majority caucuses, spots in senior leadership, committee chairmanships and ranking posts, and assignments to the most influential committees.

Each state delegation was scored on a scale from 1 to 100. The Show-Me State’s “clout score” came in at 26.6.

“The aggregate score suggests how likely it will be that one state’s members do better than another’s to get parochial priorities achieved in Congress,” Roll Call says in a blurb about the Clout Index.